Trump’s Takeover Of DC Cops Has Legal Time Limit

August 11, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies

Playbook reports:

The president can federalize the Metropolitan Police Department in 48-hour increments. Typically, the MPD is under the control of the mayor, but under the Richard Nixon-era Home Rule Act, the president retains the power to supersede city hall for discrete periods of time. This has never happened before. When the law was written, they envisioned it being used in the event of a 1960s-style urban riot.

Asking Congress to modify or repeal the Home Rule Act? At the moment, this seems unlikely to happen; it would need a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and the support isn’t there. But could that change? It would require getting several Democrats on board, which seems outside the realm of possibility — especially if Trump decides to make a political priority of it.

There’s growing interest from a niche group in the Senate led by Mike Lee (R-Utah) to repeal the act. And it has support from prominent GOP attorney and MAGA legal enforcer Mike Davis, who has Trump’s ear and is often the tip of the spear on controversial issues that intersect with the justice system. “The Constitution is clear: Congress, not local Democrats, must control our nation’s capital,” Davis tells Playbook. “The D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973 is unconstitutional — and it has turned D.C. into a third-world Marxist hellhole.”

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